Scythe Map 08 No Damage Completion & UV Max + Reality + Items World Record Speedrun, with Commentary

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Published on January 31, 2021 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2v4TikOH-A

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Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)

Duration: 20:14

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0:00 Intro
0:45 Cautious demo with live commentary
8:00 Clips of two speedruns
9:45 Third speedrun demo
12:35 Speedrun outtake
15:30 World Record demo in split screen of demos comparing two tactics
18:30 Outro

#Scythe#GardenBase#Speedrun

This video includes seven demos in part or in full, six of which are successful attempts for scoring all monsters, items and secrets while sustaining no damage, from a pistol start, of Scythe's Map 08 'Garden Base', and the other demo is an outtake.
The first demo features live commentary, i.e. recorded as I played.
The final two demos are my best successful runs for two different tactics shown in split screen format, one of which is the UV Max + Reality + Items World Record for this map.

Scythe is the popular megawad for Doom 2, released by Eric Alm and Kim 'Torn' Bach in 2003 and can be downloaded for free from: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/scythe

Speedrunning records are maintained by the DSDA (Doom Speed Demos Archive) at:
https://dsdarchive.com/wads/scythe?level=Map 08

After the slight RNG grind of getting past the hitscan enemies initially, this map is not difficult for No Damage play. The mancubuses can fight with imps on the supercharge platform, however there are few other good chances for monster infighting. Most of the time, running away from the chaingunners in the final room is successful, but you can get hit if you're unlucky.
Although I didn't straferun when speedrunning the challenge, there is a special jump made at the start of the UV Max World Record run by 'dew', which can be seen at:

   • Scythe Map08 UV Max in 1m12s by dew  

I didn't straferun myself because that would have required more practice than I had time for in the making of the video --- video editing has eaten away at my speedrunning practice time recently.

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